Hollywood actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph on Monday (Indian Time) won her first-ever Oscars for Best Supporting Actress for the movie The Holdovers. After receiving the Oscars 2024 Best Supporting Actress Award, Da'Vine Joy Randolph turned emotional onstage during her acceptance speech. Da'Vine Joy Randolph expressed that she did not want to become an actress. Da'Vine Joy Randolphstated that she was a singer but her mother motivated her to try her hands in acting and today she has won an Oscar Award in the acting category.
In the Oscar 2024 Best Supporting Actress category, other stars who were nominated included- Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer, Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple, America Ferrera - Barbie, Jodie Foster - Nyad.
For the unversed, Directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson, The Holdover is set in the winter of 1970-71, the film stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on Christmas break. Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa play the school cafeteria manager and one of the students who stays on campus.